#sm

The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#assessment #changes #doubled #latest #made

We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#bad thing #beach #because #could #i

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas. ↗

— Harry Melling

#bbc #brown #christmas #due #filming

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#focus #i #like #movies #rarely

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#exceptionally #i #i think #perceptive #smart

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. ↗

— Mencius

#becomes #great #great man #greater #his

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#coffin #cynic #flowers #looks #man

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#better #cabbage #concludes #idealist #make

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#made #plausible #prejudice

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#fear #happy #haunting #may #puritanism